Books, Movies, Music & Plays – Take Off Your Shoes

Thanks Hanks

April 5, 2020 Marie Noelle Duquette

Today, Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson arrived home to the United States after recovering from the corona virus in Australia. Thanks be to

Losing Rachel Held Evans

May 4, 2019 Marie Noelle Duquette

Grappling with the loss of Rachel Held Evans and feeling called to pick up the torch.

Words for Warriors

September 4, 2017 Marie Noelle Duquette

Wind River is a painful movie worth seeing. It is a fictional crime thriller, about the rape and subsequent death of Natalie (Kelsey Asbille), the search

The Jungle Book

October 15, 2016 Marie Noelle Duquette

I finally watched the latest movie version of The Jungle Book last night. I had resisted watching it after a friend cautioned me, “it’s much

Just Like You

June 2, 2016 Marie Noelle Duquette

Tonight I had to listen again to Keb Mo’ sing Just Like You — a song I love but had avoided for years because of the

Just Mercy

May 28, 2016 Marie Noelle Duquette

There is an urgency to this season that I did not experience in the years when I could live dangerously and put off until today what I might have done then.

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I notice connections between people, events, movies, music, writings, the spoken word, that seem independent of one another. I write and speak about these connections because I have been created for this work and it has the potential to draw people together and transform rough places into plains of peace. I was a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for twenty years. I remain a writer whose muse is active and insistent; a lover of new experiences; a dreamer of old. I am fueled by both music and silence; I appreciate truths that can only be conveyed in whispers, if in any language at all. I have more friends than I deserve, a big fat french family I adore, a partner whose love inspires my days. We share a cozy condo with our dog Nala, and cat, Picasso. My most palpable experience of God's presence took place in a chapel in Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. In that place, where every great world religion was depicted by both name and symbol, a miracle took shape in 2005 that continues to inform my faith today. I believe the key to world peace is our willingness to understand one another and take the risks required to do that. My two sons are some of God's finest work; they are a blessing to me and to the world. I thank God for every single day of this wonder we know as life. And I thank you, for stopping by to take off your shoes and step into the shoes of those whose stories I am privileged to tell.

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